The Real H.C. Andersen.

The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen selected and translated by Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank. Including the Original Illustrations of Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frølich. Houghton Mifflin Company Boston New York. 2003. 293 p.

Hans Christian Andersen. The boy who had the courage to be talented.

From Copenhagen and Paris: A Stravinsky Photograph-Autograph at the University of Britsh Columbia

H. Colin Slim: About "The Nightingale" (1914) and "The Fairy's Kiss (1928)

Stravinsky was a longtime enthusiast of the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, whose story The Nightingale was the inspiration for the composer's opera Le rossignol (1908-1914). In 1928, when actress-impresario Ida Rubinstein commissioned a ballet from Stravinsky, he combined his appreciation for Andersen's work with a long-harbored notion of using melodies from the music of his compatriot Tchaikovsky as the basis for a new composition. The result was Le baiser de la fée (1928) or, in its full translated title, "The Fairy's Kiss, Allegorical Ballet in Four Tableaux, Inspired by the Muse of Tchaikovsky."
The ballet is based on Andersen's tale "The Ice Maiden." Stravinsky provides a compact synopsis of the story in his autobiography: "A fairy imprints her magic kiss on a child at birth and parts it from its mother. Twenty years later, when the youth has attained the very zenith of his good fortune, she repeats the fatal kiss and carries him off to live in supreme happiness with her ever afterward."
The sonic language of this ballet might be described as a combination of Tchaikovsky's opulent melodies spiked with a bit of 1920s dissonance, a characteristically colorful orchestral palette, and a hint of the emotional coolness typical of Stravinsky's neo-Classical style. Stravinsky does employ some Tchaikovskian sounds and instrumental combinations, but the textures are consistently leaner than those in Tchaikovsky's own ballets.
In 1934, Stravinsky condensed the nearly hour-long ballet into a Divertimento of some 25 minutes. Around the same time, he transcribed the Divertimento for violin and piano for his own use during concert tours with violinist Samuel Dushkin.

Hans Christian Andersen. The Illustrated Tales: With His Travels, Life and Times.

In celebration of the bicentenary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, a special edition of his much-loved stories has been compiled. This elegant volume, with a wealth of fully illustrated biographical information and reference material, is a stunning testament to the lasting legacy of his work. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) is one of the best-known storytellers of all time. He was an extraordinarily prolific and varied author whose magical stories include The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea, The Little Mermaid, The Tinderbox, The Snow Queen, The Ice Maiden, The Emperors New Clothes and many others which have become a part of folk-memory around the world. He is best known for these tales, but even these are by no means all fairy tales or ones for children. Some are straightforward fables, though he borrowed or adapted very little, most of his work being original. Together with selecting the stories, editor Charles Mosley has written a scholarly but immensely readable introduction. Detailing the prolific nature of Andersens writings, he highlights every part of his work, from fables and tales to opinion pieces and travel writings. Mosley also provides a biographical section giving details of Hans Christian Andersens life and travels, as well as sections on Andersen in art and illustration, in film, music and the stage, and even postage stamps. From his humble beginnings in a one-room house in Denmark to the end of his life, Andersens life is wonderfully chronicled.

H.C. Andersen. Edging toward the Unmapped Hinterland

Hans Christian Andersen - Told for Children.

Susanne Mørup Hansen: Translations aimed at children - including high-quality adaptations and rewritings - should be taken as seriously by scholars as tradtional "philological" translations. The study examines target renditions of "Little ida's Flowers, The Nightingale and The Red Shoes and discusses the differences between philological translations and translations for reading-aloud .... Perspectives: Studies in Translatology. 13:3, pp. 163-77. 2005.